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Basic Concepts of Economics

ICSE · Class 9 · Economic Applications

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Human Wants

  • Human wants are the starting point of economic activity.
  • Want is an effective desire for a particular thing that can be satisfied by making an effort to acquire it.
  • Desire is only a wish to have something; it does not necessarily involve effort to get it.
2

Utility and Consumption

  • Consumption is the act of using goods and services to satisfy human wants.
  • Utility is the want-satisfying power of a commodity.
  • Goods and services are purchased because they possess utility.
3

Goods and Services

  • Economic goods are produced by scarce resources and can satisfy human wants.
  • Non-economic goods are available in unlimited quantity and are also called free goods.
  • Material goods have shape, can be seen and touched, and can be transported.
4

Production and Factors of Production

  • In the wider sense, production means the creation of utility.
  • Production includes both goods and services because both satisfy wants.
  • Factors of production are the productive resources used in production.

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Desire is the wish to haveUtility is the wantGoods may be economic or nonProduction means creation of utilityThe four factors of production

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